Share/Transport in brief

0. Program summary
1. Getting started
2. Share/Transport Introduction
3. Conference objectives
4. Program and events
5. K2010 Task Force
6. Young Scholars program
7. Registration form
8. Accommodations
9. Help Desk



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 International Sharing Transport Conference

"On the whole, you find wealth more in use than in ownership."
- Aristotle. ca. 350 BC

This International Conference, the first of its kind, is bringing together leading thinkers and sharing transport practitioners from around Taiwan, Asia and the world, to examine the concept of shared transport (as opposed to individual vehicle ownership or established forms of public transport) from a multi-disciplinary perspective, with a strong international and Chinese-speaking contingent.

The concept of shared transport is at once old and new, formal and informal, but above all one that is growing very fast. Something important is clearly going on, and the Kaohsiung event will look at this carefully, in the hope of providing a broader strategic base for advancing not just the individual shared modes (e.g., car/share, ride/share, bike/share, street/share, taxi/share, etc.), but of combining them to advance the sustainable transport agenda of our cities more broadly.

Are we at a turning point? Is sharing already starting to be a more broadly used and relevant social/economic pattern? Is there an over-arching concept which we can identify and put to work for people and the planet? And what do you need to look at and do to make your specific sharing project work?

These are some of the issues that we shall be examining with prominent invited guests from the fields of economics, politics, psychology, who will join transportation experts to discuss these trends. Hosted in Kaohsiung, Taiwan's energetic second city, the event will take place during car free day celebrations, which conference guests will be encouraged to join.

The event will include presentations on leading projects related to transport sharing taking place globally.

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Sharing in Transport (Quick overview)

Here is a quick concept diagram which is intended to give a first idea about how Share/Transport as a broad class fits in with the other more traditional mobility options. And here you have the initial brainstorming list that we developed as a broad framework to sort through and figure out which of the shared transport modes and cross-cutting vectors should be selected for consideration by the three day conference. (This list has been discussed, prioritized, pruned and consolidated as useful for the conference. See below.)

  1. Bike/sharing (Check out the informal 30 second video on this at http://www.vimeo.com/6856553 )
  2. Car/sharing (includes both formal and informal arrangements
  3. Fleetsharing
  4. Ride/sharing (carpools, van pools, hitchhiking - organized and informal).
  5. Taxi/sharing
  6. DRT and paratransit
  7. Shared Parking
  8. Truck/van sharing (combined delivery, other)
  9. Street/sharing 1 (example: BRT streets shared between buses, cyclists, taxis, emergency vehicles)
  10. Street/sharing 2 (streets used by others for other (non-transport) reasons as well.)
  11. Public space sharing
  12. Work place sharing (neighborhood telework centers; virtual offices; co-workplace; hoteling)
  13. Sharing SVS (small vehicle systems: DRT, shuttles, community buses, etc.)
  14. Cost sharing
  15. Time sharing
  16. Successful integration of public transport within a shared transport city? Including bus and rail
  17. Team sharing
  18. Knowledge-sharing (including this conference)

Share/Modes selected for presentation and discussion for Kaohsiung 2010

Now that's a very long list and it was clear that we were not going to be able to cover the full gamut in the three days allotted to this first Forum conference. So with our Task Force's guidance we finally selected the following for consideration in Kaohsiung.

Session I: Car/sharing (Car clubs in Britain.)

Session II: Ride/sharing/Employer Share/Transport

Session III: Bike/sharing (Public bicycle systems)

Session IV: Taxi/Sharing and DRTS

Session V: Street/sharing. Integrating private, public and share transport in the city

Session VI: ICT applications for share/transportation

Session VII. The Fine Art of Sharing in transport: Behavior, communications, policy and practice

Session VIII. Young scholar/cooperative program

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Who is visiting the conference site

This map will give you an idea of the first wave of interest in the coming Kaohsiung conference and events, based on visits to the site over the last several days. The heavy interest coming from Europe and North America is to be expected, as well as a groundswell of interest in the Asia Pacific area.

It makes it clear to us that we will need to find ways to bring in participants and spread these ideas in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the former Soviet republics. In fact in many of these countries there is already a considerable amount of shared transport going on. The problem is that it is for the most part being ignored by planners and policy makers, or worse, suppressed without first being fully understood. In sustainable transport in the 21st century, the first rule is to learn to work better with what we have.

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